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The kidnappers are gone. "Qian Jia sat on the stone bench and patiently explained to the prince's elder brother.

Xue Zhengqi smiled and nodded, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth. Looking at Tang Qianjia's tied hair, she resisted to pat her up: "I didn't recognize me later, why did you say so much?"

"Well, although you didn't catch me right away, maybe you are still a kidnapper, just wanting to tease the cat and the mouse for a while, and if you catch me, it must have something to do with Daddy, so I guess you must know Daddy, I asked you why you didn't go to find your father, but it turned out, it turned out..." Qian Jia said a few times, her face blushed: "It turned out that you are the elder brother of the prince."

"Hahahaha..." Xue Zhengqi lay down on the table with a smile, and took a long time to get up: "You, you are really a child, but you are still a very smart child."

"I'm not a child anymore, I'm already 15 years old." Qian Jia whispered.

"Okay, okay, not a child." Xue Zhengqi answered him holding back a smile.

"Are you waiting for Daddy here?" Qian Jia asked.

"Well, when your father comes back, I have something to tell him. I didn't come in through the front door just now, for fear of delaying his business. Anyway, I have nothing to do today, so I'll just wait here."

"Then I'll call him."

"No, just call your mother and tell her I'm here."

"Okay, brother prince is waiting."

When he followed his mother on the way back to the pavilion, he found that the pavilion in front was empty, and the prince had long since disappeared. Just as he was about to look around, Tang Ziao waved to them both from the front.

Tang Ziao and the crown prince were both in the room, as well as Qian Xiang, Qian Jia and Xue Wanyi walked into the room, looked at the three of them, and sat down curiously.

The crown prince supported Xue Wanyi to sit beside him, and he waited until he sat down before he said: "This time, the emperor's birthday, he said that he would hold a banquet. For some reason, he suddenly said that he would invite you. I got the news and came to tell you in advance." Let me know, it is estimated that the imperial father's order will be delivered in a few days."

After he finished speaking, both Xue Wanyi and Tang Ziao looked unhappy. Xue Wanyi grabbed the prince's hand and asked eagerly, "Is it just the two of us?"

The crown prince shook his head: "It's your whole family, all five of you are going."

"Is it the emperor's intention?" Tang Ziao asked.

"I don't know about this, but when I first started preparing for the banquet, I didn't say that I would invite you. After all, I haven't had it in the past ten years. But later, for some reason, my father suddenly remembered it, or was reminded by someone. So I decided to ask your family to go too.

I'm worried about Xiaojia, if uncle, you take him out first, and when the order comes, say that you are out of town. "

Xue Wanyi sighed, and shook her head: "Forget it, if the emperor decides to ask us to go, he will definitely inquire about our recent situation. Maybe it was just a simple banquet, but now it is a big mistake to refuse. Let's go Okay, let's be more cautious in our words and deeds, and we should be fine." Patting the back of the prince's hand, Xue Wanyi said calmly.

"Go, it's fine." Tang Ziao said, "Thank you, Prince, for taking care of me."

"I'm fine. I'm just afraid that something might go wrong again. It's hard for you to live in peace. When it's time to attend the banquet, don't deliberately dress up Xiaojia, be casual, and try to be as childish as possible."

"Well, don't worry, I understand." Tang Ziao nodded.

"Xiao Xiang is fine, just let him go with the flow."

"it is good."

The two children sat on the side, and when they heard these words, they were in a fog.However, Qian Jia faintly felt that some bad things might happen to him because he was the son of his mother. Seeing the three of them saying a few words from time to time and then nodding their heads, he lowered his little head, feeling bored. Say nothing.

After the crown prince finished his explanation, he got up to leave because he had many affairs.

Xue Wanyi hugged Qianjia and held her in her arms for a long time.Qian Jia knew what was on her mother's mind, so she didn't ask, but just hugged her back.

Sure enough, in the evening of the next day, the father-in-law who passed the decree came to the gate of the Tang Mansion, because he was a family member of the banquet in name, and it was not very formal. He just asked the father-in-law to bring a few words that he must be present, and after telling the specific time The father-in-law left.

The banquet is about to enter the venue in the evening, and it will not start until the sky is completely dark.Under Chang Wen's reminder, the four of them started preparations in the afternoon. It was the first time for Qian Xiang and Qian Jia to go to the palace, so they were inevitably a little nervous and looking forward to it.

Qianxiang took off his saber, put on a dark blue coat, tied up his hair, and looked a little more gentle than usual. If he took a fan and uttered a few poems, he would be a gentle and elegant young man, but the little Xiang obviously didn't like this attire, he looked very reserved, his hand that was always on the sword was open, not knowing where to put it.

Xue Wanyi thought about Qian Jia's outfit for a long time, and finally put on that red coat for him.Against the backdrop of red, her pink face looks even more fair and radiant. Even though she is 15 years old, she still looks like the boys behind in the fairy picture, with a white face, red lips, and picturesque eyebrows.The more I look at it, the more I feel that it is a slender child who can't lift his hands or shoulders, and needs to be raised at home to cherish and love, especially when he smiles silly, he looks like a child who hasn't grown up.

Tang Ziao didn't change much, he was still wearing the same black clothes, even Xue Wanyi was wearing light blue cotton clothes, and he didn't wear silk and other high-quality clothes at all.The hair was pulled into a ball at the back, and a simple wooden hairpin was inserted, which was extremely simple.

In this way, a group of four people got into the carriage and walked towards the palace.

When they arrived, there were people waiting to receive them at the side door, so the carriage was naturally left outside, and the four of them got out of the carriage and walked forward. Fortunately, the little eunuch who led the way specially chose a secluded road with few people. How to meet people.

The banquet hadn't officially started yet, and the emperor hadn't arrived yet. There were quite a few people sitting loosely on the banquet table, probably more than half of them had arrived. The little eunuch lowered his head and took small steps to lead the four of them to the right In the front seat, watching the four of them sit down, he saluted and stepped back to leave.

After the four of them sat down, they didn't attract many people's attention. Looking carefully, many people came with their wives and children, and perhaps most of them were officials.There were not many loud noises, and they all respected each other cautiously, and then chatted a few new things recently.

Looking at their attire, they are all gorgeous and solemn, especially the women. They are all made of silk and satin, with gorgeous and complicated hairpins and pendants on their heads, and jade and gold and silver ornaments on their necks and hands. The brilliance flickered, sitting there, pursing his lips, occasionally talking a few words to the wives of other families, and the children brought by several families were all teenage boys or girls, maybe they wanted to take this opportunity Show your face in front of the emperor, and when the boy finds an official position in the future, the girl might be valued by a certain prince and prince and become a relative of the emperor.

Compared with others, Tang Ziao and his family of four looked too ordinary. Even Qian Jia, who was dressed in the brightest color among the four just now, became an ordinary dress against the backdrop of this group of people.

Qian Jia looked at the delicately made dim sum in front of her, couldn't help but took one, looked around carefully, saw that no one was paying attention, broke open half, then half, divided into four pieces: "Mother, Dad, Xiao Xiang. "

One person gave a piece, and then threw a piece into his mouth, narrowing his eyes enjoying it.

"Eat by yourself, don't choke. There will be wine and food served later, don't eat too much dessert." Xue Wanyi smiled and ate the snacks her son brought over, and pushed the plate in front of him.

"Xiao Xiang eats too." Qian Jia picked out some good-looking snacks sprinkled with sugar and handed them to Tang Qianxiang. Tang Qianxiang shook his head and frowned: "Don't eat sweet ones, you can eat them yourself."

After giving way, no one would like to eat it, Qian Jiale hugged the dishes into her arms, tasted each of them, eat more of the delicious ones, and throw away the bad ones.

At this time, a young eunuch rushed over with a family of three and sat on the seat next to them.

The man looked over and looked suspiciously for a while, as if recalling the officials in the court, but he didn't think who the person in front of him was, so he cupped his hands as a greeting.

Tang Ziao nodded to him, and Xue Wanyi smiled back.

"The emperor is here!" A loud and thin voice sounded, and everyone at the banquet put down their things and stood up in unison.

Palace Banquet

The crowd fell silent immediately, followed closely by the sound of Suo Suo's clothes touching, and fell to their knees: "See Your Majesty."

"Get up." The emperor raised his right hand falsely: "You can do whatever you want today, don't be restrained."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The crowd stood up more carefully, and everyone sat down cautiously and humbly.

Xue Wanyi patted the dust off Qian Jia's knees, and pulled him to sit beside her.The four of them were not far from the emperor, Qian Jia was pulled up by her mother and sat down, staring at the emperor with both eyes.

The emperor is about 40 years old, his expression is not very good, and the corners of his eyebrows and eyes are a little tired.Without much domineering hostility and arrogance, he looked more like a scholar. With a calm expression, he nodded and smiled and ordered the banquet to begin.

Sitting next to him, the woman who came with him was in her 30s, graceful and luxurious. What age deposited on her face was not the lines but the nobility and charm after maturity.She looked arrogant in her bones, raised her chin slightly, and only lowered her head and pursed her lips into a smile when the emperor was talking to her.

Qian Jia looked at the emperor, and before looking at her mother, she whispered to her ear and asked, "Is that your brother?"

Xue Wanyi froze for a moment, then chuckled: "Yes."

"Well, they look a bit similar." Qian Jia nodded.

"Don't keep staring, watch out for the emperor